Example sentences for: accepts

How can you use “accepts” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Orwell constructed an alternative future in his vision of the totalitarian state, Nineteen Eighty-Four . The work has given English a small lode of unpleasantries: the title itself connotes a society marked by government terror and propaganda destroying the public's consciousness of reality (the OED Supplement also accepts 1984 and 1984-ish as adjective forms); that government's official language, Newspeak , now indicates the propagandistic or ambiguous language of, among others, politicians, bureaucrats, and broadcasters (“revenue enhancement” for “tax increase,” etc.); the twisting of minds to the capacity to accept the validity of utterly contradictory opinions or beliefs, or double-think ; the book's head of state, Big Brother , implies an apparently benevolent, but really ruthless, omnipotent, and omniscient state authority.

  • Bringing Harry along means teaching him how to dress and spend money ("Having money and not flashing it is strictly for gentiles," they explain); treating him to a whore (Anna Thompson), whom he reluctantly accepts and then pays not to have sex with ("Do I seem normal with girls?

  • Society accepts the responsibility--and takes the credit--rhetorically, while evading the responsibility in practice.

  • He accepts lesser parts in bad movies ( Call of the Wild ) and worse television ( The Colbys , a short-lived, dreadful Dynasty spinoff).

  • But he accepts that any one of the respected national funding agencies, such as the German Research Foundation (DFG), or even a specialist body, such as EMBO, could do the job.


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